Isn't Iraq the worst foreign policy disaster in American History?

Question

Thanks to Bush and his enablers, the US has lost its moral authority and the element of goodness in American power.
We can begin the damage control after they are gone and banished from power.

Answer 1

You disagree with neo-cons and they "patriotically" tell you to go live in another country. Desperation is definately sinking in as the hypocrisy rises.

Problem is Bush and his cronies when in very naively thinking by now they'd have established a democracy and thing would be over and and done with. Their ignorance of the political situation over there has been glaringly apparent these last few years. they've opened up a can of worms and destabilized a large area with possible rammifications in neighboring countries.

It was a colloseul blunder like the Vietnam War

Answer 2

What approximately Vietnam? i don't understand the way you ought to legitimately argue that Iraq is worse than Vietnam. 60,000 individuals ineffective. What on the subject of the neutrality and appeasment in the previous the U. S. entered WW2? we could have helped out the British, and French, and varnish, and Russians, and so on particularly of waiting till Hitler had taken over maximum of Europe. i think of conflict is an unsightly subject, yet waiting as long as we did to go into WW2 would have value hundreds of hundreds of lives. So, to respond to your question- not by skill of an prolonged shot. Iraq is undesirable, yet not even on the fringe of the "properly suited distant places coverage disaster in American historic previous".

Answer 3

No. Vietnam is still worse. over 57,000 Americans died. I believe our Trade Tarriffs before the Great Depression is the worse. It created the Great depression and partly led to WW2. Of course how we handle the surrender of Germany in WW 1 also was bad too. It was also a contributing factor to WW 2.

Answer 4

One of the reasons we are in the pickle we are in in Iraq is from answers like one here about Jimmy the Fink.(randallZ)Did you serve your country sir?If so, thankyou,if not then come up with a more resonable solution and not deride others for their opinions.Other than Iraq being the worst ,most dishonest policy in recent memory was probably our forefathers policy of allowing slavery to go on as long as it did.

Answer 5

"THEY"

"We can begin the damage control after they are gone and banished from power."

Here's your "they": Bill Clinton on regime change in Iraq. 31 Oct 1998 The Iraq Liberation Act - read it.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/libera.htm

There. Feel better now?

Answer 6

I'd have to agree that Bush and his cronies have created an absolute mess in the Middle East, and of course, it's the American citizens who chose to defend our country by joining the military who are paying the price for it, not to mention the millions of Iraqis who have had their lives disrupted or ended by rampant violence. I can think of other foreign policy disasters that are nearly as bad if not worse, including our isolationist policies during World War I and before World War II, our support of brutally oppressive dictators throughout Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin and South America in the name of "defeating communism" during the Cold War, and most tragically, not stepping in and putting an end to the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

Something needs to change, and change can only be brought about by the people.

Answer 7

No, that would be unquestioning support for Israeli terrorism. In the 1940s and 1950s, when a reasonable solution was possible and most of the muslim world would have gone along with it, the US chose force and permitted the Israelis to begin the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from their homeland.

All problems the US has had with muslim nations stems from that and the US's overthrow of democracy in Iran in 1953.


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Answer 8

what about the war with mexico where we basicly positioned our troops in contested territory and when they tried to protect their teritory we used it as a provication to steal half of mexico. General Grant even said in his memoirs that it was the greastest crime ever commited by a more powerful nation against a less powerful one. Or is this just a bush sucks question?

Answer 9

Particularly, I found the Escuela de las Americas pretty disturbing. The US was not only supporting a bunch of dictators in Latin America, but also teaching them torture techniques
It was disgusting the way that the US also economically helped these assassins. Just in Guatemala, the dictatorship killed 200000 people. it was much worse than what is happening in Iraq

Answer 10

Why don't they banished you. Iraq will only be a disaster when the Democrats and cowards like you have us pull out before the job is done. Okay, sorry, I don't know you are a coward, but that's what your question leads me to believe. Maybe you are just a liberal. The worst foreign policy in U.S. history was giving the Panama canal away by Jimmy (the Fink) Carter.